Final Greenway Meeting Scheduled

UA News Services
April 19, 2005


The Drachman Institute at The University of Arizona will host a third and final public meeting to outline proposed design concepts for a multi-use pedestrian-bicycle transportation greenway. The proposed El Paso and Southwestern Greenway would connect westside Tucson neighborhoods and the City of South Tucson to downtown Rio Nuevo redevelopment and to each other. The meeting will take place on Thursday, April 28, at 6:30 p.m. at the Carrillo School at 440 South Main Avenue.

The El Paso and Southwestern Greenway is a community project that is proposed to transform the former El Paso and Southern rail corridor into a multi-use 2.25- mile urban greenway. The project would link nine historic neighborhoods/barrios in downtown Tucson.

The route would run from approximately Euclid Avenue and 40th Street in South Tucson to Estevan Park in the Dunbar Spring neighborhood, north of Downtown. This last meeting will be an opportunity for the community to hear about the proposed master concept plan, details of the proposal and alternative means of implementation.

The greenway is a project of the Drachman Institute, a community outreach unit within the UA College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Three graduate students in landscape architecture - Lori Bryant, Karen Vitkay and Samirah Steinmeyer- under the guidance of Professor Corky Poster, are completing the research, design and concept development of this project. Other sponsors include the El Paso and Southwestern Greenway Coalition (A coalition of neighborhoods and trails/bikeway advocacy organizations) and the Rio Nuevo Multi-Purpose Facilities District.

The El Paso and Southwestern Greenway project was initiated by a coalition of neighborhoods with the goal of providing a multi-use (bicycle, jogging, walking) greenway connecting some of the unique and important neighborhoods and downtown activities. The greenway is potentially a key element of the Rio Nuevo project, providing an alternate path for downtown neighborhoods to access the newly proposed civic and cultural activities.

The greenway also is a complex undertaking that stretches through two jurisdictions (South Tucson and Tucson), involves scores of different right-of-way segments and adjacent land owners and is likely to involve federal, state, county, City of Tucson, City of South Tucson and private resources to implement.

For more information, contact Corky Poster at 520-623-1223 or by e-mail at cposter@u.arizona.edu

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What

El Paso and Southern Greenway public meeting

Where

Carrillo School at 440 South Main Avenue

When

Thursday, April 28, 6:30 p.m.

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